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Description for Orchid Fever
Paperback. Series: Methuen non-fiction. Num Pages: 240 pages, b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: WMPC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
A true story of one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions: the orchid, brought to book by the author, traveller and self-confessed orchid obsessive. From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, and the clandestine nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of Minnesota, this is a dark and humorous tale of orchid smugglers, ice-cream makers and visionary breeders; of courruption, murder and moths with 12-inch tongues; and of the vicious, bizarre world of international plant politics and the wide range of gentle people whose overriding passion is the cultivation of these beautiful, fragile flowers.
A true story of one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions: the orchid, brought to book by the author, traveller and self-confessed orchid obsessive. From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, and the clandestine nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of Minnesota, this is a dark and humorous tale of orchid smugglers, ice-cream makers and visionary breeders; of courruption, murder and moths with 12-inch tongues; and of the vicious, bizarre world of international plant politics and the wide range of gentle people whose overriding passion is the cultivation of these beautiful, fragile flowers.
Product Details
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Methuen non-fiction
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780413747501
SKU
V9780413747501
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
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